Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, and Debt:

Investor Who Called Crypto Firm ‘World-Class’ Now Says It’s a Near Total Loses

Kim Dotcom: Big Crash Needed for Crypto to Go Mainstream

These are some of the ways inflation is changing Americans' spending habits

Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:

Omicron-specific Covid booster shots are just weeks away. Here’s who will—and won’t—be eligible

The Pandemic’s Soft Closing

The CDC’s latest COVID guidelines are the closest the nation’s leaders have come to saying the coronavirus crisis is done.

Politics:

The DOJ under Barr wrongly withheld parts of a Russia probe memo, a court rules

Trump Threatens ‘Major Motion’ Based On Fourth Amendment In FBI Mar-A-Lago Search

Trump claims his rights have been "violated in a level rarely seen before in our country." …
Former U.S. Attorney Harry Litman speculated in a Twitter post that Trump was likely referring to a motion to suppress evidence, which people do after — not before — charges are filed. “And he’ll surely lose,” Litman wrote.

“Trump Threatens” is as hackneyed in a headline as “Trump Lashes Out.”

James Carville: Trump scandal could be ‘biggest story since 9/11’

The century of climate migration: why we need to plan for the great upheaval

People driven from their homes by climate disaster need protection. And ageing nations need them.

GOP candidate for Florida House is booted from Twitter after post about shooting federal agents

Merrick Garland Can’t Afford to Miss

The lesson to be drawn is emphatically not that Trump needs to be given permanent immunity because of a “don’t arrest ex-presidents” rule or out of fears that his supporters will take to the streets or launch lone-wolf attacks on the F.B.I.
The lesson, rather, is that if the agents of the state come after Trump, and especially now when they come as representatives of an administration that might face him in the next election, they can’t afford to miss.

We Don’t Need a Trump-Inspired Civil War for Things to Get Real Bad, Real Fast

Car blast kills daughter of Russian known as ‘Putin’s brain’

Serendipity:

Breakthrough over potentially harmful chemicals found in most homes

See it? Squish it! Fighting the invasive spotted lanternfly

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